Michael Robertson’s cloud music service MP3Tunes has quietly filed for bankruptcy protection at the end of April. Robertson blamed the lengthy legal fight with major label EMI for the bankruptcy, alleging that the music biz regularly destroys startups with drawn-out litigation. Read more »
Univision, the Spanish-language media giant, has opened a new front in the long-running battle over where and how people can make copies of… Read more at paidContent »
The recent decision in the copyright case against Mp3Tunes is only the latest skirmish in a battle founder Michael Robertson has been fighting with the music industry for over a decade. Without him, we might not have many of the things we take for granted today. Read more »
How does the founder of cloud-music service Mp3tunes feel about Amazon joining the party? “Bring it on,” he says. Michael Robertson also believes Amazon’s entry could have legal consequences, since it is playing fast and loose with the terms of its licenses from the record labels. Read more »
Michael Robertson’s new cloud service Dar.fm makes it possible to remotely record shows from hundreds of radio stations and then stream these recordings to mobile phones and other devices. Robertson is currently fighting with the music industry in court, and Dar.fm may also face some resistance. Read more »
Folks at Skype might be getting a tad desperate in their prolonged fight with JoltID, the intellectual property company controlled by the Skype founders — Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. And that’s why they might be looking to buy Gizmo5, a SIP-based calling service started by […] Read more »
Michael Robertson, founder of Gizmo5, which recently released a service that enables free calls to Skype called OpenSky, calls the new Skype-for SIP service vaporware. It’s great to see Skype inching towards a more interoperable world with their Skype for SIP service. Even if this is […] Read more »
